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Archive for April, 2025

April 10th, 2025 – Mudita and RedDeer.Games invite you to brave the Tar and discover so much wonder that it can fill page after page with today’s release of Pilo and the Holobook, available now on consoles and PC.

Journey to the fringes of the mystical XOP-642 star system and use the Holobook to document your findings, capturing each beautiful world you visit in a collage of stickers, unlocking new capabilities for this magical encyclopedia along the way.

Come experience this heartfelt adventure today, as Pilo and the Holobook is now live on Steam, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S|X, and Nintendo Switch for $12.99 USD.

About Pilo and the Holobook

Pilo might be an entirely new space explorer, but that won’t stop him from taking you on a journey where documenting the wonders of the galaxy is the goal – one sticker at a time, of course! In Pilo and the Holobook, you’ll explore vibrant, hand-painted planets full of strange lifeforms, ancient secrets, and very funky residents.

Using your trusty Holobook, you’ll turn the world around you into collectable stickers and start building your own galactic encyclopedia. It’s part puzzle, part exploration, and all about curiosity – because the space system XOP-246 has some spooky history… better be careful with that purple thing called Tar.

Oh, and if you’ve ever wanted to save the universe with an encyclopedia… now’s your chance!

Game Features:

• Your trusty Holobook – a wonder of modern technology with a touch of magic, that will allow you to collect sticker version of nearly everything you see!
• Planets, puzzles, and people – discover colorful wonders, solve age-old puzzles, and meet some truly bright minds!
• A whole new world – find out what happened to the old residents of star system XOP-246!

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Montpellier, France – April 10th, 2025. Italian Independent developer Caracal Games and publisher Dear Villagers are proud to announce that Star Overdrive, their new high-speed action open-world game, is now out exclusively on Nintendo Switch. The Caracal Games team has been hard at work for years to create an alien open world in which players will have to answer a distress signal to save their loved one. They will face challenges and enemies, which they will have to overcome thanks to their speedy Hoverboard, physics-based powers and powerful Keytar.

Players can purchase the standard edition of Star Overdrive exclusively on Nintendo Switch at $34,99 and the Deluxe Edition at $39,99 which includes 3 styles, 1 design and 50 dyes for the Hoverboard, as well as the digital Original Soundtrack and the digital Manga written and drawn by the Caracal Games team, narrating a prequel story to the Star Overdrive main story.

The demo of Star Overdrive remains available on the Nintendo eShop, if players want to experience the first hour of content Star Overdrive has to offer and get a glimpse of the story and gameplay mechanics available in the tutorial zone of the game.

KEY FEATURES

• Hoverboard Navigation and Racing: Speed through vast landscapes, perform incredible tricks, and gain the edge in intense combat.

• Emergent Physics-Based Gameplay:Unleash and combine powers to battle enemies, bend the laws of physics, and solve intricate puzzles.
  
• Mysterious and Diverse Alien World:Journey through four uniquely distinct biomes, each brimming with challenges and secrets to uncover.
  
• Epic Battles Against Creatures of All Sizes:Engage with unique creatures, from small-scale rivals to towering bosses, each requiring strategy and skill to overcome.

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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 3rd, 2025 – Developer Minimol Games in partnership with SMG Studio are pleased to announce that Chessarama, their unique anthology of original chess-inspired puzzle games, is coming to Switch and PlayStation platforms. Prepare to reimagine chess as you never have before, with eight single-player variations of the classic board game that will force veteran chess aficionados to rewire their brains while also training new players to think like a chess master!

Chessarama is a smorgasbord of chess-inspired single-player games that use chess pieces and their established move sets, then reimagines their goals and themes. Choose a game, quickly learn its rules and play through the campaign, unlock collectibles, and compete against each other on the leaderboards. Endless replayability awaits you. Welcome to Chessarama!

Each game has its own theme, set of rules and original handcrafted levels for you to play! In Dragon Slayer, players must move a pawn to the end of the board where it can slay a mighty dragon, though the dragon attacks the board after every turn, obliterating any unprotected piece. In the feudal Japan-set Lady Ronin, the chess Queen must eliminate every piece on the board in order to get close to the Shogun and assassinate them. And in Soccer Chess you must position your pieces in pursuit of kicking the ball into the goal. Try all these and several more original chess-inspired puzzle games in Chessarama!

“We were thrilled by the love people both in and out of the chess community had for Chessarama upon its launch on PC and Xbox, so we can’t wait to share it with a whole new audience on Switch and PlayStation,” said Raphael Dias, CEO and Game Director at Minimol Games. “Chessarama is more than ‘just another chess game’; it’s a varied puzzle game that tickles the puzzle-solving parts of your brain, regardless of your experience with chess.”

Features:

• Play 8 exclusive chess-inspired games available in Chessarama;

• Puzzle campaigns featuring 100+ levels plus 100+ unique challenges;

• 24 exclusive Chess Figures to unlock and collect

• Unique art style, with beautiful dioramas;

• Daily and Weekly Challenges;

• Compete against each other on the leaderboards;

• Learn chess movements, tactics and strategies through a modern video game experience;

• Also includes “Classic Chess” for you to put your learnings into practice!

Chessarama was made possible due to financial support by the Rio de Janeiro City Government through RioFilme.

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